Established in 2017, ignitionpress is an award-winning poetry pamphlet press with an international outlook which publishes original, arresting poetry from emerging poets. It is based at the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre.

Pamphlets published by the press have so far received six Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice selections and five pamphlets have also been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award. Learn more about the 28 pamphlets we have published and their authors on our Pamphlets page. We encourage you to read our pamphlets before submitting to get an idea about the kind of work we tend to publish and how our pamphlets look and feel. Most of our pamphlets are currently on sale, so you can pick up a bargain!

We welcome submissions from emerging poets aged 18 and over anywhere in the world. We consider an emerging poet to be a writer who has had some poems published online or in magazines, but who has not yet published a chapbook, pamphlet, or book-length collection. We expect that you will have – or be working towards – a pamphlet-length manuscript of around 18-20 poems. Our pamphlets are normally 36 pages in total. Please see our note below about the editing process at ignitionpress.

Please submit:

• 6 poems that give us a sense of your proposed pamphlet. One or more of these poems can have been previously published. For the purposes of your submission, individual poems should be no more than fifty lines long.
• 75 words that summarise your manuscript as it stands and tells us about you as a poet. Feel free to include any notable poetry projects, successes in competitions, and publications in magazines or anthologies. Please add this to the same document as the poems and ensure that your name and e-mail address are included.

The submission window will be open from Monday 21 April at 00.00 until 23.59 on Wednesday 21 May. Please send your poems and summary as one document to ignitionpress@brookes.ac.uk

We pay poets £125 upon acceptance of the final manuscript and an additional payment of at least £50 in travel expenses for launches.